By MICHELLE CURRAN andJAMES CIRRONE, US NEWS REPORTER
Published:07:26 EDT, 9 May 2026|Updated:13:07 EDT, 9 May 2026
There was horror onboard a Frontier Airlines flight bound forLos Angeleswhen it struck and killed a person walking on the runway at Denver International Airport on Friday night.
Denver International Airport released a statement confirming that a person 'jumped the perimeter fence' near the runway and was hit two minutes later at 11:19pm local time.
The individual is dead and has not been identified, though officials do not believe they were an employee of the airport.
The person was at least partially consumed by one of the engines of Frontier Flight 4345, an official confirmed to ABC News. Blood was visible in the impacted engine of the Airbus A321, according to photos seen by the Daily Mail.
Mohamed Hassan, one of the passengers, gave an interview to NBC's Denver affiliate KUSA.
'Honestly it was the scariest experience of my life,' he said. 'I was on the flight and I looked to my right and I just saw a fire, I heard a loud boom, people started screaming.'
'I thought I was going to die,' he said.
Hassan added that he and the others on board were stuck on the plane for about three minutes before the evacuation began. He said he inhaled 'a lot of toxic fumes' and that passengers were screaming.
Source: Drudge Report
